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Development Success Advances Foundation's Mission

THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG Foundation depends upon the generosity of
many—more than 103,000 donors in 2004—to achieve its mission:
connect America's past to the present.

Gifts help train the interpretive staff,
conserve the antique and reconstructed buildings of the eighteenth-century
city, and develop programs that educate and inspire guests who visit in person
or through the Internet.

Gifts, grants, and payments on pledges in 2004 totaled
$40,052,000. They pushed the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg, the
foundation's multiyear, $500 million comprehensive fund-raising effort, to
$398,371,000, or 79 percent of its goal, by year's end.

Each gift helped fulfill the campaign's "People, Place,
Purpose" goals, and illustrated the ways supporters can participate in the
campaign. Underlining their admiration for such founding fathers as George
Washington, Kitte and Royce Baker of Rancho Santa Fe, California, gave $1
million to endow programs that feature Nation Builders.

Virginialee
and Ed Lynch of Vancouver, Washington, committed a $2.5 million bequest to the
campaign. Madonna and Harold Matheson of Malibu, California, established a
$421,000 charitable remainder trust to support the Colonial Williamsburg
Teacher Institute. The foundation received a record $4.2 million in estate
distributions, including $1.2 million from Jeanne and Willard Hoffmire of
Pittsburgh, and $1.5 million from Elizabeth and Joseph Handley of Carmel,
California.

For the third consecutive year, donors to the annual
Colonial Williamsburg Fund numbered more than 100,000. Fund gift totals reached
a record $12,441,000. The number of new donors—27,901—set another
record, as did the average gift size. People from all fifty states
participated, some making multiple gifts.